• Was a Finalist in the Mail & Guardian Greening the Future Awards
• Won the Institute for Housing South Africa Gauteng and National award for Community Upgrader of the Year
• Currently has 43 active projects
• Celebrated 10 years of the EduPlant programme
• Was the only NGO to be a finalist in the ACCA
• Sustainability Reporting Awards
• Distributed over 32 000 Trees for Homes  in 122 communities
• Distributed 11 000 more trees at 58 Arbour Week events
• Facilitated 300 community workshops which trained 1200 community members
• Facilitated 57 EduPlant permaculture workshops which were attended by over 3 800 educators from all over South Africa
  

With the support of funders and the endorsement and co-operation of various national, provincial and local government departments, Food and Trees for Africa is involved with implementing three large programmes, under which all its projects fall:

• Trees for Homes is a programme to ensure the planting of trees and increased environmental awareness that leads to cleaner and greener suburbs for low cost housing developments. It enhances the participation of low-income communities in local level decision making and helps to improve environmental management capacity among both local authority representatives and communities. Linked to Trees for Homes is The Urban Greening Fund
• The Urban Greening Fund was created with seed funding from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and is a basket fund, supporting partnerships with organisations concerned with the fact that the majority of the population live in degraded and environmentally impoverished areas with little food security.  The Urban Greening Fund aims to develop partnerships to facilitate Permaculture food gardens at schools, clinics, and community centres; to plant and maintain street trees and parks and to spread environmental awareness and education.
• The EduPlant Programme has become a point of convergence for Permaculture activities throughout South Africa and has had a major impact on schools, national government and many communities in South Africa in a most positive and beneficial way
• By training educators in the methods of Permaculture, EduPlant has motivated schools and their communities to address poverty alleviation, greening, food security, sustainable natural resource use and management, capacity building and skills development
• Schools that had never heard of Permaculture before are now finding that they can increasingly meet the nutritional needs of their learners. They are schools that have unique living, learning laboratories that facilitate the effective delivery of the outcomes-based curriculum in all the learning areas
• EduPlant 2004 held 57 workshops for approximately 4000 educators across the nine provinces. In addition to the standard workshops, 5 day workshops were held on site at 18 schools across the nine provinces. During this time, Permaculture professionals visited 150 schools delivering vegetable seeds and educational materials, assisting them with any problems with their food garden projects and to select the 63 finalists. All 63 finalist schools won the opportunity to attend the exciting finals, three days of permaculture, environmental, performing arts and music workshops
• The finals of the 2004 Woolworths Trust EduPlant Programme are designed to recognise the development of schools’ gardens over time.  The Emerging Category is for schools that have recently implemented a Permaculture project and are entering the programme for the first time. The Intermediate Category is made up of schools that have been finalists before, but have not yet won in a Category. The Advanced Category is comprised of schools that have maintained a Permaculture project for more than a year and that have been previous winners of EduPlant. Nine schools are also chosen as winners in their respective provinces. More than R200 000’s worth of prizes were distributed to all the finalist schools, these include the trip to the event, R500 cash for each school, as well as numerous educational resources, seeds and gardening tools
  

Our primary objective is:

• To contribute to greening, sustainable natural resource management and food security
• To create an awareness of the benefits of environmental upliftment activities amongst all communities of Southern Africa
• To contribute to poverty alleviation, improved environments, capacity building and skills development increasingly for people living with HIV/AIDS
• To work in partnership with government, the private and public sectors and civil society to improve the quality of life and environments for all communities of Southern Africa

Food & Trees for Africa receives proposals from disadvantaged communities across South Africa asking for our assistance with many different greening and food gardening projects. As a non profit organization we rely on caring individuals to help us to help these communities. There are various ways you can do this so we encourage you to choose from any of the following or see our wish list for further details:

• Trees and seeds - Contribute any amount to trees or vegetable seeds for a school, a women’s group, an old aged home, orphanage, home based care givers or a church that FTFA is supporting
• Permaculture Design Course - Contribute to sending people from any gardening group on a two week Permaculture Design Course that will help them to learn techniques to improve their food gardens and produce more herbs, vegetables and fruit organically
• Plant a tree - Give a gift, remember a loved one, acknowledge achievements or celebrate any occasion, a birthday, wedding or anniversary by planting a tree
• Purchase Educational Booklets and Resources - These
  practical publications include titles such as The Greening Booklet , My Nursery , The Permaculture Toolbox, A Permaculture guide for schools and Working with the World
• Clothing - Food & Trees for Africa offers original gift ideas for those who are environmentally aware.  These eco-gifts help to contribute to disadvantaged communities and provide new social and environmental advantages and opportunities that are typically absent from the lives of children growing up in these areas
• Purchase a FTFA membership - From individuals to families, small businesses to corporate memberships, each FTFA member contributes to the development and greening of South Africa